“The most important thing in life will always be the people right here, right now. That’s what real.” Those touching words are lifted verbatim from Fast and Furious 7 (uttered by lead character Dominic Toretto played by Vin Diesel), the latest instalment in a franchise that seems to go Continue Reading
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Trips to see grandma just got creepy with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit
SNAPSHOT The Visit is written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village), which he also produced with Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Sinister). The film employs a found footage style of storytelling to follow a brother and sister (Ed Oxenbould, Olivia Continue Reading
Quake in fear invading cookies of Bon Bon for the Aveggies are here! (Sesame Street parody)
“People of Earth, prepare to be desserted! Mwahahaha!” You may have noticed that a small, low budget indie film by the name of Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently in cinemas, the latest in Marvel’s long line of super successful superhero movies to triumph at the box office. Even Continue Reading
Cobie Smulders and Guy Pearce are looking for Results but is life ever really that easy?
SNAPSHOT Recently divorced, newly rich, and utterly miserable, Danny (Kevin Corrigan) would seem to be the perfect test subject for a definitive look at the relationship between money and happiness. Danny’s well-funded ennui is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru-owner Trevor Continue Reading
Movie review: Avengers: Age of Ultron
There is no denying that Avengers: Age of Ultron, directed as was the first The Avengers film (2012) by the superlatively-talented Joss Whedon, is a big, booming, city-destroying blockbuster of a movie. It’s clearly meant to be that way, uniting once again the team of Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers/Captain Continue Reading
Anzac Day classic movie review: Gallipoli (1981)
“Anzac Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. It is the day on which we remember Australians who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations. The spirit of Anzac, with its human qualities of courage, mateship, and sacrifice, continues to have Continue Reading
The alluring mystery of When Marnie Was There
SNAPSHOT Anna hasn’t a friend in the world – until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn’t all she seems…An atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside Continue Reading
Movie review: The Age of Adaline
You couldn’t blame life immortal for thinking it might need a new PR team. Time after time of late, in TV shows like Forever and Helix, and movies like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and now director Lee Toland Krieger’s The Age of Adaline, the idea of living forever Continue Reading
Open wide! Jurassic World has lots of new posters and a trailer for you to devour
SNAPSHOT Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar, an island located off Central America’s Pacific Coast, near Costa Rica, now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. This new park is owned by the Masrani Global Corporation. Owen Continue Reading
Nanu nanu indeed: Jamie Costa pays a first class rapid tribute to the great Robin Williams
I think it is safe to say that there will be never be another man as funny and talented as Robin Williams, a uniquely-talented comic force of nature who managed to be zany and intense, jocular and intense throughout a career marked by one stellar performance after another. So Continue Reading